Looking around for how to create (l)xml one sees typical tutorials like this:
https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2013/04/30/python-101-intro-to-xml-parsing-with-elementtree/ Given the requirement to build up this xml: <zAppointments reminder="15"> <appointment> <begin>1181251680</begin> <uid>040000008200E000</uid> <alarmTime>1181572063</alarmTime> <state></state> <location></location> <duration>1800</duration> <subject>Bring pizza home</subject> </appointment> </zAppointments> the way I would rather do it is thus: [Note in actual practice the 'contents' such as 1181251680 etc would come from suitable program variables/function-calls ] ex = Ea("zAppointments", {'reminder':'15'}, E("appointment", En("begin", 1181251680), Et("uid", "040000008200E000"), En("alarmTime", 1181572063), E("state"), E("location"), En("duration",1800), Et("subject", "Bring pizza home"))) with the following obvious definitions: [The function names are short so that the above becomes correspondingly readable] from lxml.etree import Element def Ea(tag, attrib=None, *subnodes): "xml node constructor" root = Element(tag, attrib) for n in subnodes: root.append(n) return root def E(tag, *subnodes): "Like E but without attributes" root = Element(tag) for n in subnodes: root.append(n) return root def Et(tag, text): "A pure text node" root = E(tag) root.text = text return root def En(tag, text): "A node containing a integer" root = E(tag) root.text = str(text) return root This approach seems so obvious that I find it hard to believe its not there somewhere… Am I missing something?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
